I think it is brilliant. Now when these figures never show up at a store 30 miles from my house I only have 19 figures to get (insert word or phrase of your choice here) by scalpers on eBay.Much better than the 30 or 40 I would like to have.

I agree- we keep hearing that current media support drives sales of toys to kids and gift givers(whether it is a theatrical release or television show), and here is a television series aimed at kids at the mid-point of the run, and very little product to go with it.

I've been hunting aqua droid, ahsoka, serpias, and others for months, and I have the advantage that I know they were even released, and hit stores several (and sometimes many) times a week. What are the chances of a 9-10 year old actually getting some of these toys, or even knowing they were produced? I wouldn't want to see pegs overflowing with clone wars either, but if anything needed to be put to rest for a bit, it should have been legends/heroes. At least until CW had run its' course on television.

As long as I am taking the opportunity to rant- Lucasfilm could have done a way better job of keeping CW information going to Hasbro in a timely manner. Figure releases aimed at kids a year or more after the episode airs is pretty poor planning, but isn't necessarily the fault of the toy manufacturer. The timing of CW wasn't anything special, it could have been held back a year to synch the merchandise and the media.

Not to mention that, by season's premiere, E1 won't be the "big thing" anymore. CW will be back to the focus by that point I'd think.

The only thing is that manufacturing has to divert resources and stuff, and with 1 movie a year, it's difficult for them I'd imagine to not divert a lot, every year, to each movie, for the majority of the previous year (if that makes sense). I've seen some evidence of that of late, and it'll be interesting to see going forward how much remains focused on whatever the 3-D movie is that year. By E1's release next year they'll be working on E2's stuff, and so on and so forth.

Yeah, it's TPM driving things right now. Which is fine. Imagine if they had dropped an full CW line on us at the same time - say 18-20 figures - we'd be complaining. I think. CW will come back hard next fall. I do hope they focus on some things that have gotten past us already - Night Sisters and so on - before we get too carried away by Season Four.